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IPS – Infinity Production System

Meet the pressroom supervisor’s new best friend… IPS. After just a few days with IPS your team will be pumping their fists with joy because they have the right tools to excel at their jobs.

In a digital workflow, IPS sits between your order system and your DFE and presses. It adds significant value by preparing and delivering batches of your clients orders efficiently through production. IPS is a production system, not an order system. We leave the receiving of the orders, communicating order status to the customer, billing, and historical reporting to the order systems. IPS focuses on delivering the best press-ready output to your DFE organized in a format that optimizes every downstream process from printing, finishing, packing and shipping.

IPS Benefits Based On Your Role

Visibility to all orders types and summary statistics on products that need to be produced. Allocate presses and other resources appropriately for the work at hand based on the data.

Detailed order status for troubleshooting, what system or person did what action to an order, how many times, and when.

Consistent batches of work sent through the workflow. Product by product batch size control. Maybe 2″ of press output is all that fits in the throat of the guillotine cutter, but the die cutter has no limits and runs best with an 8″ stack.

Order cover sheets and batch manifest sheets that clearly communicate all the information required by the post-press processes, reducing errors

Press jobs that show up with all the settings built into the job ticket. Your press operator can focus on keeping the press running at peak performance instead of manually adjusting arriving press jobs.

Batches of like work minimize equipment setups so that your production yield is higher.

Ability to place multiple IPS UI workstations around the production floor. As a central system, the UI’s all have a visibility to the same information. The view of the information can be customized to only display what they are interested in seeing. (ie. A cell of Kodak presses may only want to see work that is printed on Kodak presses)

Improved Quality by building products with production aids (bleed stamps and cover sheets) that reinforce quality at every step of the process

Enabler for your LEAN or Six Sigma principles

Central press production floor interface for all your streams of orders.

Visibility to all orders that need to be produced.

DFE and Press status displayed within the IPS UI.

Ability to reprint batches of work to an alternate press if the original press goes down

Ability to move work between different device types and have the product layouts adjust as needed

Quick visibility to any errors as an order goes through the workflow

Robust, reliable solution that recovers and retries when networking or power issues occur

Technology that doesn’t require babysitting, it just works reliably

Availability, again it just keeps working. One customer just rebooted his server after being up for 529 straight days of production (through two straight photo peak seasons). It was finally rebooted to apply Windows updates.

Press jobs that show up with all the settings built into the job ticket. Your press operator can focus on keeping the press running at peak performance instead of manually adjusting arriving press jobs.

Detailed order status for troubleshooting, what system or person did what action to an order, how many times, and when.

Consistent batches of like orders that can be processed together

Order cover sheets and batch manifest sheets that clearly communicate all the information required to process the work

Batches of only orders that have single line items (no order combining at packing)

Batches based on the size of box required to ship

Batches based on the type of packaging

Solution that enables you to meet all your SLA’s

Your business won’t suffer if key people burn out or move on, because you are less reliant on heroes in production. Your heroes become more effective because repetitive tasks are off their plate so they can focus on more challenging issues.

Efficient production leads to more profits

Reliable and scalable infrastructure that enables your team to deliver when the big client or special campaign is won

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TESTIMONIALS

Infinity Digital has been a valued vendor of CDS for five years. During that time they have demonstrated their ability to provide extremely reliable, scalable, high performance digital workflow solutions. The system they have developed for us has proven itself over five peak seasons as more than up to the challenges and demands we have placed on it.
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Infinity Digital has proven to be a key partner of ours. More than just a software developer, they bring invaluable industry experience to the table. They intimately understand the particular challenges we face in a high-volume low-mix digital print flow and the evidence is in the stability and scalability of their solution as well as their invaluable counsel and support.
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John Taylor, Vice President of Technology, Nies, a Consolidated Graphics Company (CGX)

I have worked very closely with the Infinity Digital team over the last five years and from initial launch of the software to the on-boarding of new customers and product lines, their team has been nothing short of amazing to work with. Their attention to detail, and understanding of our individual customers’ needs is second to none.
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